Lotus Carlton

VXR8

 

 

Exhaust

Changing Hydraulic Clutch Fluid

Bonnet Vents

LS9 Clutch

Intercooler Reservoir Tank

Intercooler Pump

 

 

 

Exhaust

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http://www.lotuscarlton.co.uk/vxr8ex3_files/image002.jpg

Used a phone app to measure the drone frequency, so if this is telling the truth,

I guess around 130hz, worst drone from about 1500 to 2000rpm, right around 65/70mph

 

Found some time to rip open a mid box, not too surprised by what is inside….

The middle chamber looks to be HSV’s idea of a x-pipe.

Sound absorption material looks like it was thrown in from 20ft…..very hit and miss…

Poor quality stainless steel skin, mild steel baffle inners !

Redeeming feature was that it was a double skin wrapped box.

http://www.lotuscarlton.co.uk/vxr8ex3_files/image004.jpg

 

 

Cherry bomb looking silencers just after the mid box, exactly what the look like with perforated straight

through baffle tubes inside…….mild steel ??

http://www.lotuscarlton.co.uk/vxr8ex3_files/image006.jpg

 

In progress  with the tube work from cats……

http://www.lotuscarlton.co.uk/vxr8ex3_files/image008.jpg 

 

Kinda gone off this x-pipe I made a while back

http://www.lotuscarlton.co.uk/vxr8ex3_files/image009.jpg

 

 

so made another from a single 90deg 3D radius mandrel bend.

 

http://www.lotuscarlton.co.uk/vxr8ex3_files/image011.jpg

A bit more conventional, I did purchase one from MIJ Exhausts but sent this back as was not

too happy with the wall thickness of tube they use.

 

 

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